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Gastrointestinal complications - Radiation Enteritis :  Includes diet advice from US National Cancer Institute.

How patients manage gastrointestinal symptoms after pelvic radiotherapypdf - 30 July 2003;
B Gami, K Harrington, P Blake, D Dearnaley, D Tait, J Davies, AR Norman, HJN Andreyev. (Full Article)

Current management for late normal tissue injury: radiation-induced fibrosis and necrosis. April 2007
Delanian. S, Lefaix JL (Abstract - full article available from publishers)

Significant clinical improvements in radiation-induced lumbosacral polyradiculopathy by a treatment combining pentoxifylline, tocopherol and clodronate. Dec 2008, Delanian S, Lefaix JL, Salachas F, Pradat PF. (Abstract - full article available from publishers)

Successful pregnancies after combined pentoxifylline-tocopherol treatment in women with premature ovarian failure who are resistant to hormone replacement therapy - Feb 2003, Letur-Konirsch H, Delanian S  (Abstract - full article available from publishers)

An article on Radiation Enteritis for medical professionals, but might be useful. Links to other sources of information too.

Cancer Research UK has an article on Long term effects of pelvic radiotherapy on the bowel.

Cancerbackup/Macmillan - information and article links from Europe's leading cancer information charity:-
Longer term problems caused by radiotherapy in
women and men. Information on their website.		 They have excellent booklets available, mostly free, if you search their website.
There are also information centres in the UK you can find by entering your UK postcode in to their site here

NACC article on problems after pelvic radiotherapypdf article published in 2006 has done much to get UK medics, medical charities and patients on side to a common aim of improving awareness, rather than aggressive actions that probably led to defensiveness by oncologists.

RAGE (Radiotherapy Action Group Exposure) lobbied UK media, Parliament and medical authorities in 1990's. Their actions concerned mainly damage after breast cancer.

There was a meeting in London of patients of the Royal Marsden in 2008. This has led to the formation of a fledgling group called
Pelvic Radiation Disease Association (PRDA).

In Manchester UK a event called "Life After Radiotherapy for Cancer" was held on 26 March 2009. See posterpdf.

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